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9-year-old girl from Seattle rescued 60 000 people

9-year-old Rachel
Beckwith started raising money for drinking water for the poor population of Africa.
The girl died in a car accident but her last wish rescued 60 thousand people!

Rachel’s first charity initiative
was to donate her hair for the wigs of children sick with leukemia. After that the
manager of the charity fund “Charity: Water”, Scott Harrison, visited with the
lecture. He spoke how people suffer from lack of drinking water in Africa’s
poor countries. Rachel was touched by the shots where poor people drank from
dirty puddles. At the lecture the girl learned that contaminated water caused a
lot of deadly infections.

To save money, Rachel refused
to celebrate her birthday and instead of presents she asked her friends to donate
money to her own site created in the charity fund. She raised money for digging
wells of drinking water for people without drinking water. According to the
calculation of the fund Rachel should raise 300 USD to save 15 people.

On her birthday and
presents she raised 220 USD – Rachel had no time to do more... In half a month
after creating the site in the fund a big car accident happened – 13 vehicle
pile-up. Dozens of people were delivered to hospitals. Among them was Rachel who
could not be rescued. She was attached to artificial respiratory system but she
didn’t come to mind. In the meantime relatives and friends donated small sums
of money on Rachel’s account. The amount of donations started to grow and it
attracted the society’s attention. Unfortunately, in half a month it was
obvious for the doctors that Rachel would never come to and turned off her life
support... The girl’s last wish – to raise money for drinking water for people
in Africa became known to thousands of Americans.

“The campaign of raising
the money for Africans was known in Rachel’s Church and in several days it was
possible to raise more than 100 thousand USD. Afterwards whole Seattle was
involved – 300 thousands, 400 thousands and we could not understand what was
going on”, - the manager of the fund Scott Harrison says. Thousands of people
from all over the world wrote exciting letters. Children of other countries followed
Rachel’s example and asked their parents to transfer money to assist African
people. When collecting money ended it turned out that 31 997 people
transferred 1 265 823 USD.

“I’m just blown away by
the overwhelming love and support and response. It is a great pain and
happiness at the same time”, - mother of the girl, Samantha Paul said.